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I had a dream that I was in Vancouver and I'd just finished interviewing with Chris Williamson, and we were generally walking back towards my hotel but he had to go have dinner with some fashion designer. He offered that I come by I'm like "naw, I wear my clothes until they literally disintegrate" and he was good about it. So when we parted ways he parkour jumped off the side of this building like it wasn't no big thing and I spent the rest of the dream trying to find stairs to get back down to street level.

Vancouver is a megacity to me (same as Toronto whose constructions are absurdly huge), the sort of place where you can get stuck in the huge skyscrapers that may be maze-like and interconnected in such a way that you might never need to touch the ground. I live in the backwoods where you can go touch a tree that grew there naturally, not because some city contractors planted it there. I've been outside often twice a day every day I'm not at work so I'm getting used to having my shoes firmly in the soil at ground level.

I think the thing with Chris Williamson is actually way simpler than any metaphor: he seems like he's in really good shape, and I've been feeling really creaky this summer. He seems like the sort of guy who would be in such good shape and so used to the city that he'd just jump off a walkway one story up like it wasn't a big thing.

The part about clothes I think is part of an ongoing theme in the dream about just being a normal guy. I made another quip during the dream about being someone who has touched a can opener this week, representing the sort of boring normal life where you eat preserves out of a can.